* Me , the Artist ** Moi, l’artiste *** Io l’artista

Many times in these last ten years of my activity as an artist (and even before) I’ve been struggling and be really unhappy with the fact that artist and art are perceived as coming from another planet, not really being part of this world and most of all not being part of every human life.
Last year I started to develop the #NormalizeArt hashtag which for me was and still is a concept before then an hashtag of course
Then I got a bit sucked away with others things but the matter is still compelling me a lotWhat came to your mind with the word “artist” ? A brave person ? A bit of a crazy person ?
Someone that makes you dream (maybe about things that you will never dare to do?)
Someone who’s free and wild ? Someone that is eccentric ?Funny enough (and this is definitely a good news) many sensitive persons are quite patient with artists
Artists may be very often (and not on purpose) : shy, offensive, not enough communicative , strange not in a fashionable way, closed in them self even cutting them self out
Even between an artist and another things are far to be easy. Very often we don’t want frequent each other, we are very critic and not everything is explained with jealousy.
I would dare say that for many it has actually nothing to do with that.Usually when we are old enough or confident enough or both we can admire another’s artist work knowing exactly that it doesn’t make our work less better, far from that. So the problem is not our value.
Sometimes we just don’t like see in the other our struggle to make a leaving with our art for instance, or the struggle at all
We don’t like, exactly like any other human being, see the pain in the other and we have empathy enough to feel that very deeply.
It’s not comfortable so we tend most of the time to go away with that and loneliness is really part of our life
The purpose of this is not making you sad, of course, and even less I want you run away far from this page 😉I really like the idea of filling this gap and artist just be considered as human, being in person or through their artwork.
Feeling that is normal and that we could buy a painting like we would buy an iPhone without necessarily being a millionaire

One thought on “* Me , the Artist ** Moi, l’artiste *** Io l’artista”

Thank you Angela , I think is a blessing to be able to express through art…even if sometimes in life I didn’t exactly thinked so (this is another story)
And I definitely would say it’s either good or bad, it’s just a fact (which it seems to be common for quite few artists)
It would be nice have others comments about it 🙂